The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
EVERYTIME A GIRL WISHES TO BE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.
I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand
No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse
That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing-...
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Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...
They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They gave out much less about Nature, but they drank in, perhaps, much more. They painted the white robes of their holy virgins with the...
If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.
Two great talkers never go far together.
Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying.
Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
